The Blackwell companion to Christian ethics

"Featuring updates, revisions, and new essays from various scholars within the Christian tradition, The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, Second Edition reveals how Christian worship is the force that shapes the moral life of Christians. Features new essays on class, race, disability, ge...

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Group Author: Hauerwas, Stanley, 1940-; Wells, Samuel, 1965-
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Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Blackwell companions to religion
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444396683
Summary: "Featuring updates, revisions, and new essays from various scholars within the Christian tradition, The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, Second Edition reveals how Christian worship is the force that shapes the moral life of Christians. Features new essays on class, race, disability, gender, peace, and the virtues Includes a number of revised essays and a range of new authors The innovative and influential approach organizes ethical themes around the shape of Christian worship The original edition is the most successful to-date in the Companions to Religion series "--
"The second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics features a range of new topics, issues and authors within the fresh and imaginative approach to Christian ethics which made the first edition such a success. The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, 2nd edition is ecumenical in outlook, and encompasses chapters from leading commentators within the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, Mennonite and Pentecostal traditions. It is designed to be accessible to beginning students and upwards studying Christian ethics"--
Item Description: B005D7EPA6 (Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN)).
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (1233 pages).
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781444396683 (electronic bk.)
1444396684 (electronic bk.)
9781444396669 (electronic bk.)
1444396668 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: BJ1251
CLC: B97-05
Contents: Front Matter -- Studying Ethics through Worship. Christian Ethics as Informed Prayer / Stanley Hauerwas, Samuel Wells -- The Gift of the Church and the Gifts God Gives It / Stanley Hauerwas, Samuel Wells -- Why Christian Ethics Was Invented / Stanley Hauerwas, Samuel Wells -- How the Church Managed before There Was Ethics / Stanley Hauerwas, Samuel Wells -- Meeting God and One Another. Gathering: Worship, Imagination, and Formation / Philip Kenneson -- Greeting: Beyond Racial Reconciliation / Emmanuel Katongole -- Naming the Risen Lord: Embodied Discipleship and Masculinity / Amy Laura Hall -- Being Reconciled: Penitence, Punishment, and Worship / John Berkman -- Praising in Song: Beauty and the Arts / Kevin J Vanhoozer -- Collecting Praise: Global Culture Industries / Michael L Budde -- Praise: The Prophetic Public Presence of the Mentally Disabled / Brian Brock -- Re-Encountering the Story. Reading the Scriptures: Rehearsing Identity, Practicing Character / Jim Fodor -- Listening: Authority and Obedience / Scott Bader-Saye -- Proclaiming: Naming and Describing / Charles Pinches -- Deliberating: Justice and Liberation / Daniel M Bell -- Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation / William T Cavanaugh -- Confessing the Faith: Reasoning in Tradition / Nicholas Adams -- Being Embodied. Interceding: Poverty and Prayer / Kelly S Johnson -- Interceding: Giving Grief to Management / Michael Hanby -- Interceding: Standing, Kneeling, and Gender / Lauren F Winner -- Being Baptized: Race / Willie Jennings -- Being Baptized: Bodies and Abortion / Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt -- Becoming One Body: Health Care and Cloning / M Therese Lysaught -- Becoming One Flesh: Marriage, Remarriage, and Sex / David Matzko McCarthy -- Sharing Peace: Class, Hierarchy, and Christian Social Order / Luke Bretherton -- Sharing Peace: Discipline and Trust / Paul J Wadell -- Re-Enacting the Story. Offering: Treasuring the Creation / Ben Quash -- Participating: Working toward Worship / R R Reno -- Remembering: Offering Our Gifts / D Stephen Long, Tripp York -- Invoking: Globalization and Power / Timothy Jarvis Gorringe -- Breaking Bread: Peace and War / Stanley Hauerwas, Samuel Wells -- Receiving Communion: Euthanasia, Suicide, and Letting Die / Kathryn Greene-McCreight -- Sharing Communion: Hunger, Food, and Genetically Modified Foods / Robert Song -- Eating Together: Friendship and Homosexuality / Joel James Shuman -- Being Silent: Time in the Spirit / Michael S Northcott -- Footwashing: Preparation for Christian Life / Mark Thiessen Nation -- Being Commissioned. Being Blessed: Wealth, Property, and Theft / Stephen Fowl -- Bearing Fruit: Conception, Children, and the Family / Joseph L Mangina -- Being Sent: Witness / Michael G Cartwright -- Afterword. The Virtue of the Liturgy / Jennifer A Herdt -- Afterword / Rowan Williams -- Index.